Nation: FOULS IN THE FINAL ROUNDS

Up to the final weeks of the cam paign, Hubert Humphrey and Rich ard
Nixon had filled relatively rigid roles. Humphrey, who after the Dem
ocratic Convention privately admitted, "I'm dead," sought
resurrection by fron tal assault. He inveighed against "Rich ard
the Silent," vowed "to put a blow torch to his political tail
and run him out into the open." Nixon rarely ventured out of his
protective thicket of statesmanlike aloofness, either to discuss the
issues or trade invective. As one top Republican strategist said
immediately after Miami Beach, "It would suit...